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Dr Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two. This is the world's #1 archaeology blog according to Technorati.
Four Stone Hearth
May 31, 2008
Category: NOIBN
I'm in Kirkwall on the Orkney islands for a conference on maritime societies in the Viking and Medieval periods. It's a lovely sunny evening, which is apparently a rare and precious occurrence around these parts. The dialect is also something...
Posted by Martin R at 4:29 PM • 9 Comments •
May 30, 2008
Category: Archaeology
In 2005, a team led by myself and Howard Williams excavated a 9th century boat inhumation burial at Skamby in Kuddby parish, Östergötland, Sweden. The finest finds we made in the grave were a collection of 23 amber gaming...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
May 29, 2008
Category: Children
It was a good talk, ranging from abstruse physics to everyday practicalities of life in space.
Posted by Martin R at 3:10 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
I'd find it in pretty poor taste to make dish rags with the Crucifixion.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 18 Comments •
May 27, 2008
Category: Tech
An elderly gentleman saw his grand-daughter answer her phone while holding her newborn baby...
Posted by Martin R at 3:52 PM • 13 Comments •
May 26, 2008
Category: Archaeology
Amazing to find all this insanely old material in a tract of completely nondescript woodland.
Posted by Martin R at 4:12 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: NOIBN
It has deployed its solar panels successfully and is transmitting pictures!
Posted by Martin R at 1:47 AM • 1 Comments •
May 24, 2008
Category: Archaeology
Amazing finds from the Finnestorp war booty site.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
May 23, 2008
Category: Archaeology
A massively useful research tool.
Posted by Martin R at 12:51 PM • 7 Comments •
May 22, 2008
Category: Humour
I've posted a fine example of Ansiktsburk song lyrics before: listen to a song in a language you don't understand, and try to imagine that it is actually sung in your own language though with a funny accent. Then...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 Comments •
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